New Project for Josh Lucas

Josh Lucas has agreed to star in a new thriller about the real-life mysterious death of journalist Daniel Pearl. The film will be based on the Bernard-Henri Levy non-fiction book "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?" as well as a script by New York Times Magazine’s foreign correspondent Peter Landesman. The book stipulates that “Wall Street Journal” correspondent Daniel Pearl may have been murdered for uncovering a link between Pakistani secret service and Al Qaeda.

Tod Williams (The Door in the Floor) has been brought on by Beacon Pictures to direct. Warner Brothers is also reportedly working on another version of the story based on a book by Pearl's widow Marianne.

If you can’t wait to get your Josh Lucas fix, you’re in luck. The Wolfgang Petersen disaster epic “Poseidon” releases this Friday.